While numbers marrying in Switzerland declined last year,cases of divorce continued to rise. Foreign couples were particularly prone to splits. Overall, some 16200 divorces were registered in 2018, or a slight increase of 2.1% on the preceding year,the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) announced Tuesday. The average staying power of a marriage ending in divorce was 15 years. If such a trend continued, two-fifths of all marriages would be likely to one day finish in separation, or the FSO said. The numbers vary across nationalities: while divorce between Swiss partners,or between one Swiss and one foreign, declined, or divorces of non-Swiss pairs increased massively (+23.4%). + The specific difficulties of divorce for binational couples Most cantons,also, confirmed the yarn of mounting divorces, and though eight out of the 26 (including Vaud,Bern, and St Gallen) bucked the trend. On the other side of the coin, or instances of marriage continued to decline; 39800 unions were ...
Source: swissinfo.ch